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A86525	The danger of desertion or, A farvvell sermon of Mr. Thomas Hooker, sometimes minister of Gods Word at Chainsford in Essex; but now of New England. Preached immediately before his departure out of England. Together with ten particular rules to be practised every day by converted Christians.	Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647.	1641 (1641)	Wing H2645; Thomason E171_3; ESTC R1512	16,119	33

keep company in the paths of sinne what is this his proffer what are the tearmes no harder what then should I doe but bid sinne adieu would you have God to be your God and will you not keep out of sinne If not he will not be your God But now let every soule forsake his uncleannesse and God will come to that soule and therefore that place is marvellous sweet Isa 58.8 You shall call and God shall say here I am if that you will forsake your evill courses Thus you see you have as faire an offer as faire a warning as God can propound 2. As you must prepare roome for God so you must give him content let him have his will Where the King comes there he will have all according to his minde so it is with God if he may have his owne worship you please him well you must dresse his dish according to his tooth but when you put poison into his meat you discontent him then you doe not give him his mind you must lay aside all superstition and errours then you please his tooth above all when your soules submit to his truth At the name of Iesus every knee shall bow This is not meant of the word Iesus to give a bow with the knee and a stab at the heart If so why do we not bow at the word Iehovah as at the word Iesus but the bowing at the word the syllable is Idolatry And here we doe not give him his minde but the meaning of it is that we should worship him in spirit and truth 3. As we give him his minde so we must give him welcome also and entertainment If you look lowring towards him and grudge at him and his truth no wonder but he goe away This is the sinne of England We beare an ill will to God and his word God hath done much for us of this land What could he have done more for his vineyard Isa 5. 4. but it brought forth fruit contrary to his expectation and therefore marke what he saith I will take away the hedge thereof it shall be troden downe so will it be with us Are we better then the old world the same sinnes that were found in them are found in us Sodome and Gomorrah on whom God rained fire and brimstone are not our sinnes as great and are there not as great sinnes in us as were in Ierusalem that was carried away captive are we better then other Churches then our brethren that have drunk so deeply of the cup of Gods wrath what are we I will tell you we are a burthen to God he cannot beare us he will thinke his paines well over when he hath destroyed us You know all men are glad when their paines are over so it is with God we are a paine and a trouble to him and why should God goe continually in paine and trouble with us who are worthy to be destroyed If his decree once come forth then shall England seeke peace and shall not finde it God will not pitty us as in Isa 7.25 Ah! Brethren what a heavy case is it when a mercifull God doth shew himselfe unmercifull when a patient God will be impatient O beloved there is a hard time befalling us of England yet we consider it not lamentable is our time God wept over Jerusalem a long time Oh that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thy eyes So may I say to England their Lord hath wept over it in mercy and patience a long time but it hath not been taken notice of God hath hid it from our eyes what shall we doe when his mercy is turned into fury and his patience into frowning what shall we doe when we have leasure to consider what once we did enjoy we can never prize Gods patience till that we finde the great want of it Thus then the poore soule will say There was a time when we might have been at peace with this patient God but now it is hid from our eyes I might have had mercy but now the gate is shut and not onely shut but locked and barred too Thus when people refuse mercy he sends the contrary judgement and then it will grieve and wound our soules to thinke what once we did enjoy but that man that will bid God welcome to his heart may goe singing to his grave 4. You must be importunate with him to stay and to continue and count it a great favour that he will yet be intreated Isa 37. Iacob wrestled with God and thus must we doe if we meane to keep him You that live under the means and will not walk in them what great condemnation wil be to you over to them that have not the meanes as it is said of Capernaum Mat. 18. so say Ito England Thou England which wast lifted up to heaven with meanes shalt be abased and brought downe to hell for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in India or Turky they would have repented ere this therefore Capernaums place is Englands place which is the most insufferablest torment of all and marke what I say the poore native Turks and Infidels shall have a cooler summer parlour in hell then you for we stand at a high rate we were highly exalted therefore shall our torments be the more to beare The Lord write these things in our hearts with the finger of his owne Spirit for his Christs sake under whom we are all covered FINIS THE RVLE OF THE NEW CREATVRE GAL. 6.16 And as many as walke according to this rule peace be on them and mercy and upon the Israel of God THe rule of the new Creature which is to be practised every day by all beleevers consisting of these ten particulars First be sensible of thy originall sin corruption daily know how it enticeth thee to all evil indisposeth thee to all good groan under it and bewayle it as Paul did 7. Rom. 14. O wretched man that I-am who shall deliver me from this body of death Also take notice especially of thy actuall sinnes or daily infirmities in thought word and deed endeavour to make thy peace with thy God for them before thou goest to thy bed by repenting and confessing of them to thy God worke thy heart to grieve for them by some melting considerations of Gods mercies towards thee 1 Iohn 1.9 by beleeving or casting thy selfe wholly on Christs righteousnesse for removall of thy sinne and reconciliation with thy God 3 Rom. 22 23 24 25. Cleave to Gods promises of pardon and peace Isa 43.25 Rom. 5.1 waiting till the Lord shall speake peace to thy soule Psal 85.6 The second rule of the new Creature is get thy union with Christ and interest in Christ cleare and confirmed unto thee daily more and more that thou art a branchin that vine a member in that body 2 Cor. 13.3 this may be done three wayes

have fed thee on earth this 20 30 40 50 perhaps 60 yeares and yet my milde words could not beare rule in thee or prevaile with thee and now get thee to hell and there remaine for ever Thinke this with thy selfe God will so serve thee proud Captaine King or Monarch Isa 30.33 The Text saith he will make bonfires upon their bones about their eares thus he will get himselfe glory by your destruction But you will say to me being a King or Monarch I doe not feare any such punishment shall befall me but God will say be he a King that rules or raignes yet as he hath rejected God so God will reject him He is a King of Kings and Lord of Lords and therefore such a one as will laugh at thy destruction Take notice of this and say thus to your selves Is he a good childe that cannot abide the presence of his father Is she a good wife that cannot abide the presence of her husband So is he a good creature that cannot abide the presence of his Creator This rebukes Gods owne people 2. Vse We see the Gospell going brethren I wonder you heare no better stand up heare and God give you grace to understand I deale plainly with you and tell you what God hath told me I must tell you on pane of salvation will you give eare and beleeve I poore Embassador of God am sent to doe this message unto you though I am low yet my message is from above he that sent me grant that it may be beleeved for his sake Suppose God hath told me this night that he will destroy England and lay it waste what say you brethren to it It is my message that God bade me doe he expects your answer what sayest thou oh England I must returne an answer to my Master that sent me to night why speake you not an answer I must have one Doe you like well of it would you have England destroyed would you put the old men to trouble and the young men to the sword would you have your women widdowes and your maids defiled would you have your children your deare ones to be throwne upon the pikes and dashed against the wals or would you have them brought up in idolatry under the necessity of preaching which is worst of all would you see those Temples wherein we worship God burnt and your owne houses will you see England laid waste without inhabitants are you willing to it are you content God bade me aske why doe you not answer me I must not stirre without it I must have it I am an importunate Embassador send me not away sad speake comfortably and cheerfully unto me Are you willing to have God with you still you are are you not I am glad of it but you must not onely say so but use the meanes plead with God And though his hand be up and his sword drawne yet suffer him not to destroy but to sheath it in the bloud of our enemies God grant it and I should be glad to see England flourish still and so are you are you not you are Now if it come to passe that England be not but destroyed and laid desolate thanke your selves and not God he delights not in it We may take up the complaint of the Prophet Isa 64.7 No man stirs up himselfe to lay hold upon God For this is our misery if that we have quietnesse and commodity we are well enough thus we play mock-holy-day with God the Gospell we make it our pack-horse God is going his glory is departing England hath seene her best dayes and now evill dayes are befalling us God is packing up his Gospell because no body will buy his wares nor come to his price Oh lay hands on God! and let him not goe out of your coasts he is a going stop him and let not thy God depart lay siege against him with humble and hearty closing with him suffer him not to say as if that he were going farewell or fare ill England God hath said he will doe this and because that he hath said it he will doe it therefore prepare to meet thy God O England Amos 4.12 least God complaine of thee as he did of Ierusalem lest my soule depart from thee and I make thee a desolate land not inhabited Thus we see that the godly hath done and this must be our care but let it be our Copy claspe about the Lord Jesus as Mary did they have broken the Ice let us goe after them this is our attonement day we have nothing to doe with to morrow this is the day of reconciliation we are at odds with God and to end all controversies let us labour to prevaile with God and never lose his presence I sought but I found him not Cant. 3.2 and when I found him not I followed and sought him till that I found him Our God is going and doe you sit still on your beds would you have and keep the Gospell with these lazie wishes arise arise and downe on your knees and intreat God to leave his Gospell to your posterity Shall we disinherit our infants of such a blessing shall we bereave them of the Gospell which should be the life of our lives and so to have them brought up in superstition No Lord we cannot endure this give us not health or wealth but give us thy Gospell Lord that is our plea when we have found God let us bring him home to our families that as we have made him our God so let him be the God of ours in time of affliction We will cry Lord have mercy upon us then we shall be glad of him Oh beloved carry God home with you lay hold on him let him not goe say he is our husband let him not goe for your little ones and so let us leave God to be a father unto thee But how may we keep the Lord Ob. it is worth the while it is comfortable for at his right hand are pleasures for evermore If you will come to the price Ans you shall have him The meanes are these 1. You must prepare roome for him for he is a King and a King sends an harbinger before him to prepare roome for him against he comes to any place so must you doe by cleansing your selves from every evill course therefore come out of her sarth the Lord to his people touch no uncleane thing and then I will be your God and you shall be my people Rev. 18.19 So brethren come out of all evill sinfull pleasures and practises and then you may expect Gods comming into your houses when you sit by the fire and when you lye upon your beds thinke thus with your selves What an equall condition doth he propound doth he require no more but to part with a sinne a lust a Dalila which thou mayest spare as well as water out of thy shooes or out of thy bosome yea it is so Will God